Today it's an Octopoem. If you'd like to know more about this poetry form, go here. To explain today's poem: During Brush & Bulky Pickup in this city, The Claw comes to crunch into people's old couches and giant screen TVs to lift them into the trash compactor. Highly entertaining at a very cheap price. Here it is:
The Claw
In the shell pink of the morning we hear The Claw's silvery jaws devouring the piles.
It's spring, when the buds are new, when the weight of winter has fled to the edges of the year
Down the street and up the lane it comes, roaring as it crunches, filling its belly.
Rain or the ubiquitous sunny days make no difference to The Claw's hunger.
We run out in sweats or jammies (luckily no towels) to watch the beast crunch into people's junk.
It devours couches and entertainment centers, boxes of flotsam, drifts of branches, broken chairs.
The Claw tempts Hoarders (not my husband) to release their broken bits to fill the maw.
We have in the past taken popcorn out to watch the spectacle. No time! It's coming!
©2021 by H. Linn Murphy
And an extra, in the vein of our DEAR Dr. Seuss:
AVOCADOS
Avocados are the best
Better than the bestest rest
I would eat them in the rain (if it ever did that)
I would eat them on a train.
I'd spread a burger with their flesh
With everything the fruit does mesh
I'd eat them bathing at the beach
And on a cliff if I could reach
Avocados make me grin
They improve most all I have them in
The hubby thinks they're pond scum icky
He's just so incredibly picky
Avocados are super food
Potassium in them is really good
Bananas I need not consume
With avocados in the room
Give me elegance of gooey green
And I'll stop being hater mean
Avocados make my day
Unless they're 'off', what can I say?
©2021 by H. Linn Murphy
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